بِقَدِّكُما إِن شِئتُما فَتَطاعَنا

بِكُلِّ رُدَينِيِّ القَوامِ مُثَقَّفِ

With your statures, if you wish, we would obey

With every supple spear, made elegant,

وَإِن شِئتُما بِالنُبلِ أَن تَتَناضَلا

فَدونَكُما بِالرشقِ مِن كُلِّ أَوطَفِ

And if you wish with nobility to vie

Before you in the east, all are lesser kin

وَلا تُثقِلا خَصرَيكُما بِمُهَنَّدٍ

فَفي كُلِّ جَفنٍ مِنكُما حَدُّ مُرهَفِ

Do not weigh down your loins with sharpened swords

For in each eyelid of yours, a sharpened edge exists